[Illustration: STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS] Statesman Edition VOL. V Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 565 Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. PAGE THE ANTISLAVERY ENTERPRISE: ITS NECESSITY, PRACTICABILITY, AND DIGNITY; WITH GLANCES AT THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF THE NORTH. Address before the People of New York, at the Metropolitan Theatre, May 9, 1855 1 NEW OUTRAGE FOR THE SAKE OF SLAVERY. Letter to Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison, August 11, 1855 52 THE PEN BETTER THAN THE SWORD. Letter to Committee of Publishers in New York, September 26, 1855 58 REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEW YORK. Letter to a New York Committee, October 7, 1855 60 REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFSPRING OF AROUSED CONSCIENCE OF THE COUNTRY. Letter to a Boston Committee, October 8, 1855 61 POLITICAL PARTIES AND OUR FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. Speech at a Republican Rally in Faneuil Hall, November 2, 1855 62 ORIGINATION OF APPROPRIATION BILLS. Speech in the Senate, on the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of Appropriation Bills, February 7, 1856 83 RELIEF OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS ON THE COAST. Letter to the Director of the Exchange News-room, Boston, February 18, 1856 93 THE EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON AGAINST SLAVERY NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN NOW. Letter to a Committee of the Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 19, 1856 95 CONSTANT EXERTION AND UNION AMONG GOOD MEN. Letter to a Massachusetts Committee, February 25, 1856 97 ABROGATION OF TREATIES. Speeches in the Senate, March 6 and May 8, 1856 98 REPLY TO ASSAULTS ON EMIGRATION IN KANSAS. Speech in the Senate, on the Report of the Committee on Territories, March 12, 1856 121 UNION TO SAVE KANSAS, AND UNION TO SAVE OURSELVES. Letter to a New York Committee, April 28, 1856 123